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<h1>JSON module performance comparison under Lua</h1>
<span id="author">Mark Pulford</span><br />
<span id="email"><tt>&lt;<a href="mailto:mark@kyne.com.au">mark@kyne.com.au</a>&gt;</tt></span><br />
<span id="revdate">January 22, 2012</span>
<div id="toc">
  <div id="toctitle">Table of Contents</div>
  <noscript><p><b>JavaScript must be enabled in your browser to display the table of contents.</b></p></noscript>
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</div>
<div id="preamble">
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>This performance comparison aims to provide a guide of relative
performance between several fast and popular JSON modules.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The examples used in this comparison were mostly sourced from the
<a href="http://json.org">JSON website</a> and
<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627">RFC 4627</a>.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Performance will vary widely between platforms and data sets. These
results should only be used as an approximation.</p></div>
</div>
</div>
<h2 id="_modules">1. Modules</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>The following JSON modules for Lua were tested:</p></div>
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
<a href="http://chiselapp.com/user/dhkolf/repository/dkjson/">DKJSON 2.1</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
Lua implementation with no dependencies on other libraries
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Supports LPeg to improve decode performance
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
<a href="https://github.com/brimworks/lua-yajl">Lua YAJL 2.0</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
C wrapper for the YAJL library
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
<a href="http://www.kyne.com.au/%7Emark/software/lua-cjson.php">Lua CSJON 2.0.0</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
C implementation with no dependencies on other libraries
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
</dd>
</dl></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_summary">2. Summary</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>All modules were built and tested as follows:</p></div>
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
DKJSON
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Tested with/without LPeg 10.2.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
Lua YAJL
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Tested with YAJL 2.0.4.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
Lua CJSON
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Tested with Libc and internal floating point conversion
  routines.
</p>
</dd>
</dl></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The following Lua implementations were used for this comparison:</p></div>
<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
<a href="http://www.lua.org">Lua 5.1.4</a> (<em>Lua</em>)
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="http://www.luajit.org">LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta9</a> (<em>JIT</em>)
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>These results show the number of JSON operations per second sustained by
each module. All results have been normalised against the pure Lua
DKJSON implementation.</p></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="title">Decoding performance</div>
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>             | DKJSON                  | Lua YAJL   | Lua CJSON
             | No LPeg     With LPeg   |            | Libc         Internal
             | Lua  JIT    Lua    JIT  | Lua   JIT  | Lua   JIT    Lua   JIT
example1     | 1x   2x     2.6x   3.4x | 7.1x  10x  | 14x   20x    14x   20x
example2     | 1x   2.2x   2.9x   4.4x | 6.7x  9.9x | 14x   22x    14x   22x
example3     | 1x   2.1x   3x     4.3x | 6.9x  9.3x | 14x   21x    15x   22x
example4     | 1x   2x     2.5x   3.7x | 7.3x  10x  | 12x   19x    12x   20x
example5     | 1x   2.2x   3x     4.5x | 7.8x  11x  | 16x   24x    16x   24x
numbers      | 1x   2.2x   2.3x   4x   | 4.6x  5.5x | 8.9x  10x    13x   17x
rfc-example1 | 1x   2.1x   2.8x   4.3x | 6.1x  8.1x | 13x   19x    14x   21x
rfc-example2 | 1x   2.1x   3.1x   4.2x | 7.1x  9.2x | 15x   21x    17x   24x
types        | 1x   2.2x   2.6x   4.3x | 5.3x  7.4x | 12x   20x    13x   21x
-------------|-------------------------|------------|-----------------------
= Average =&gt; | 1x   2.1x   2.7x   4.1x | 6.5x  9x   | 13x   20x    14x   21x</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="title">Encoding performance</div>
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>             | DKJSON                  | Lua YAJL   | Lua CJSON
             | No LPeg     With LPeg   |            | Libc         Internal
             | Lua  JIT    Lua    JIT  | Lua   JIT  | Lua   JIT    Lua   JIT
example1     | 1x   1.8x   0.97x  1.6x | 3.1x  5.2x | 23x   29x    23x   29x
example2     | 1x   2x     0.97x  1.7x | 2.6x  4.3x | 22x   28x    22x   28x
example3     | 1x   1.9x   0.98x  1.6x | 2.8x  4.3x | 13x   15x    16x   18x
example4     | 1x   1.7x   0.96x  1.3x | 3.9x  6.1x | 15x   19x    17x   21x
example5     | 1x   2x     0.98x  1.7x | 2.7x  4.5x | 20x   23x    20x   23x
numbers      | 1x   2.3x   1x     2.2x | 1.3x  1.9x | 3.8x  4.1x   4.2x  4.6x
rfc-example1 | 1x   1.9x   0.97x  1.6x | 2.2x  3.2x | 8.5x  9.3x   11x   12x
rfc-example2 | 1x   1.9x   0.98x  1.6x | 2.6x  3.9x | 10x   11x    17x   19x
types        | 1x   2.2x   0.97x  2x   | 1.2x  1.9x | 11x   13x    12x   14x
-------------|-------------------------|------------|-----------------------
= Average =&gt; | 1x   1.9x   0.98x  1.7x | 2.5x  3.9x | 14x   17x    16x   19x</tt></pre>
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